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Monday, January 14, 2013

Relic Hunter Navimie got Riches in Pandaria

I'm a parent, with a young daughter, so I have a good excuse to be watching Disney's Tinkerbell movies. The modern day Tinkerbell is not the haughty jealous little creature that gets angry whenever someone talks to Peter Pan - she's now an inquisitive, creative and clever fairy, who does still get angry at times, but loves humans!

(and if she played WoW, she would be alliance, since she's a human lover, and an Engineer, since she loves to Tinker)

Tinkerbell loves lost things. And Mists of Pandaria has given us a whole heap of new rare, lost things to find. And the first of them, and the easiest, are the Riches of Pandaria.

Krasarang Wilds - Stack of Papers. If you read them, it's quite funny - ""It looks like a journal of some kind. The last entry: '05151212:01 SYSTEM FAILURE'. What could it mean?" That timestamp is the day Diablo 3 came online, and the refers to the Error 37 message lots of people got when they couldn't login on that day.

Kun-Lai Summit - Hozen Treasure Cache

Kun-Lai Summit - Lost Adventurers Belongings. This area is busy! A rare spawn here as well, and angry goats that you can see there. Thank god for looting in flight form.

Kun-Lai Summit - Rikktik's Tiny Chest

The Veiled Stair - The hammer of Folly. I actually came across this when I was finishing the quest with the Black Prince to get the Sha Touched gem. He comes and stands right here!

Kun-Lai Summit - Statue of Xuen

Townlong Steppes - Abandoned Crate of Goods

Valley of the Four Winds - Virmin Treasure Cache

Similar to this, but a little harder, is the Treasures for Relic Hunter. Cymre was the first person I saw writing about it, and I thought she was the first Relic Hunter on the server - but she tells me she wasn't. She had great posts showcasing the items but what I really needed was some kind of cheat sheet, or a map. I looked them up on WoWhead but it's such a nuisance going back and forth. I am hopeless at camping and finding rare things so I decided not to do it because I can't remember where anything is.

And then who comes to save the day? Euphyley saves the day again with yet another awesome map! I remember lamenting to Ancient that I can't find anything. She said the same thing - what we really needed was a dummies guide! I complained about it to Euphyley and asked if I could borrow some of her maps so I could scribble notes on them and put it on my blog so I could find things easier and it wasn't long before she churned out all these amazing maps which have been an absolute godsend! Click on it to read her detailed and informative post.

The great thing about these Relics is that they often give something usable. A bind on account item, which is low level, but great for the 85-90 levelling range - very useful! Recipes also come from these relics as well.

An addon which I found really helpful was HandyNotes (with the Lost and Found extra bit). Falln gave me that tip, and it really is great, pinpointing the spots on the map and taking them off once you've found them.

Here's my photo journey looting. My lucky last one was the Cache of Pilfered Goods - but there are still 5 more I haven't found yet!

Krasarang Wilds - Equipment locker. Ok, compared to the last thing, this is HUGE. You can't miss it - bottom of the boats.

Krasarang Wilds - Pandaren Fishing Spear. At least it's in an easy place to spot and not full of hostile NPCs.

Kun-Lai Summit - Hozen Warrior Spear

Valley of the Four Winds - Staff of the Hidden Master. Exray took me to get this one. And then Cymre was trying to help me get it too, but I already had it and couldn't see it. But then how did these guys who already have it see it? I have no idea.

Valley of the Four Winds - Ghostly Pandaren Fisherman. Adding this to NPCScan really makes it a lot easier, though it scares the hell out of you when NPCScan goes off.

Valley of the Four Winds - Ghostly Pandaren Crafstman. Another one that scared me when NPCScan goes off. You have to add both these ghostly guys manually.

Dread Waste - Malik's Stalwart Spear. I was standing on the spot looking for it and then I got into a dungeon, and when I came out, there it was!

Townlong Steppes - Yaungol Fire Carrier. I didn't know you could find these things twice on one toon, but Moopie found 2 in the same day.

Valley of the Four Winds - Cache of Pilfered Goods. My lucky last one! I would look for this every time but I didn't know what it looked like or whereabouts it was - at least now I know it's not next to the giant stinky vegetable, it's along the side in the cavern, between two of the burrow holes

18 comments:

I got hooked the moment I saw Tinkerbell. Although there really is no excuse for me other than it was on NetFlix! But Wow, grats on tracking all that stuff down and thanks for showing us pics of what we have to look for.

A lot of nice pics you have there and grats again on the achievement. I'm actually not sure if I was the first Relic Hunter or not, it would be nice to get some kind of verification one way or the other though.

I picked the Hidden Master staff on my hunter, that's why I could still see it on my priest. The same thing happened with one of the other items. I already thought my posts were too easy with the links to the items as I did it for those looking for a particular item not all. I didn't want people coming to my site just for information.

The comments on WoWHead and other sites have complete lists of the items so I didn't feel the need to do it. I didn't want to make it too easy for people as that's half the fun - trying to find it yourself.

I would have been so scared in the second it took to take a screenshot that someone would have come along and stolen it!

Those maps looks really helpful! I had all of my 85 alts camped out at various locations and I pestered everyone I knew for invites to their servers to check. I also used TomTom and checked them off after collecting each one.

Taking pics of those lost and found things is not as bad as trying to take pics of rare spawn mobs. Many times I'm framing a pic and someone swoops in ... and ruins my shot. Though, it did happen to Lushnek, he saw the Pandaren Fisherman and took a pic, and someone swooped in and got the item. He was so disappointed and I felt SO BAD because he was taking the pic for me and he lost out on the item.